Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for the purpose " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , Dacre came to find me for the purpose of asking my permission to address you , ’ said Kirtlington . |
| 2 | Persuaded by his own musical studies of the need to educate rather than indoctrinate church musicians , he extended the aims of the College of Church Music , incorporating it for the purpose in 1875 ‘ by special licence under Act of Parliament ’ as Trinity College , London . |
| 3 | As in Between , the binary definitions on which structuralist theory is founded receive parodic treatment which voids them of their original function and uses them for the purpose of telling the tale(s) of the novel . |
| 4 | The draftsman should therefore consider whether the landlord should have the right to enter the demise for other purposes also ( eg testing the property , taking samples from it or measuring it for the purpose of rent review ) . |
| 5 | Information having the necessary quality of confidence which is supplied by one party of a contract to another for the purpose of enabling that other to perform a contract will usually be subject to an obligation of confidence so that the recipient may only use it for the purpose of that contract . |
| 6 | We now have a a piece of land which we ca n't use for fox hunting , so let's use it for the purpose it was bought for , use it for the fire station . |
| 7 | Thus the case was presented on the footing that the documents concerned had come into being and were held by the solicitors for their client as the result of a suspected intent by a third party to use them for the purpose of furthering his criminal activity . |
| 8 | Applicants were given cash grants , usually no more than £75 , and trusted to use it for the purpose they had proposed - such as buying a bicycle to do a newspaper round , obtaining equipment for a camping trip , or acquiring the wherewithal to learn a new skill or a sport . |
| 9 | On the other hand , where a landlord was entitled to determine a lease for " building sites or planting or other purposes " , he was held not to be entitled to determine it for the purpose of constructing a sports stadium ( Coates v Diment [ 1951 ] 1 All ER 890 ) . |
| 10 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 11 | When I consider the striking natural beauties of such a river as that at Matlock , and the effect of the seven-storey buildings that have been raised there , and on other beautiful streams , for cotton manufactories , I am inclined to think that nothing can equal them for the purpose of disbeautifying an enchanting piece of scenery ; and that economy had produced , what the greatest ingenuity , if a prize were given for ugliness , could not surpass . |
| 12 | Like my man in Hampstead , he does n't trust people to collect money and use it for the purpose they say they will . |
| 13 | If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use . |
| 14 | A health authority should seek out a group of " mature " female nurses and a group of male nurses who are in training and prepare them for the purpose of dispelling those commonly held misconceptions . |
| 15 | You know erm and I if she if she goes to emba cos I think she does it for the purpose really to people |
| 16 | Mr Jones did n't have the key ; it was kept at the ambulance station , whose staff would be told to lend it for the purpose required . |
| 17 | er my Lord it was n't , I was n't raising it for the purpose of your Lordship mentioned , er namely er er about er contingency fund , though indeed will be entitled to that , I raised a question of the minute , the board minute , to do with the concerned with Mr rest of the meeting about the placement |